Saturday Night Special, an “Ekphrastic” open mic

March 31 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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“Ekphrastic poems [or stories] focus on works of art—usually paintings, photographs, or statues. And modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description, and instead have tried to interpret, inhabit, confront, and speak to their subjects ” (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poems?field_form_tid=408)

Your SNS challenge for March, is to write something new based on or inspired in some way by a piece of art.

MIAH JEFFRA is author of the essay collection “The First Church of What’s Happening” (Nomadic Press 2017). He has been awarded the New Millennium Prize for fiction, the Sidney Lanier Prize for fiction, The Oregon Writers Colony Award for nonfiction, a Lambda Literary Fellowship, a Ragdale Fellowship & Residency, and other residencies at Hub City Writers Project, Arteles and Red Gate. Miah is editor of queer literary collaborative, Foglifter Press. His favorite color is fried chicken.